Pending Changelog: Experimental Branch: 0.42.116002

[bundaberg007 0]

I really don't mind having to wait a couple of months for game updates but I really liked when we had info on the development almost every week. Keep up the good work guys, this game is and will be awesome!!!

[bfisher 561]

It is though. The foundation is built from scratch, even if the content later imported will be mostly built.

 

 

They're using a project method called "SCRUM". Do you know about it? It's a very unconventional way of project management, and mostly used to fasttrack projects or parts of larger projects.

 

 

Yes, I do know about Scrum (not all caps...it's not an acronym).  It's a form of Agile project management.  I would hardly call it "unconventional".  Agile is probably the most common methodology after "Waterfall".  Also, it's not really used to "fast track" projects.  It's a more iterative approach that allows more flexibility in a dynamic and uncertain environment.  Which is not inconsistent with BI's approach of delivering the standalone alpha as a "minimum viable product" with each iteration (or "sprint") delivering more content and functionality.

 

Which is not to say that it is unstructured or not subject to spiraling out of control.  In fact, in many ways it requires even more discipline.  How frequent are the sprints?  Who is the "scrummaster" (Rocket?)  For that matter, is Scrum or Agile the best methodology if the underlying network infrastructure and architecture is incomplete?

[BlackDalia 95]

 

 

0.36 0.37 0.42

New:

Actions: Vomiting have associated sound effects

Actions: Ballistic helmet variants can be painted to black and green color with spraycan

Actions: Can check pulse on unconscious players

Actions: Searching for berries will now add berries to your inventory

Actions: Eat All now supported for consumables

Actions: You can catch rain into canteen and water-bottle from inventory

Animations: New Ruger 10/22 reload animations

Animations: New Ruger MKII Reload animations.

Animations: Player now can sit with gun/weapon

Animations: Completely new two-handed melee animations. New right-handed poses, moves and attacks for axes, baseball bat, pipewrench, crowbar, fire extinguisher, shovel, farming hoe. Animations: "Low" and "Aim" stances introduced for stand, crouch and prone.

Crafting: SKS paint recipe

Crafting: Firefighter Axe paint recipe

Crafting: B95 paint recipe

Environment: New rock textures

Food: Sambucus berry item added

Food: Canina berry item added

Gear: added black and UN ballistic helmet variants

Gear: Wool Coat red/black/brown/blue/green/grey/check variants added

Gear: can opener can be used as melee weapon

Gear: hard headgear (ballistic, moto, construction and pilot helmets) cannot be wear together with masks

Gear: Farming hoe configured and spawns

Gear: M4 attachment green variants added

Gear: Green and black variant of firefighter axe added

Gear: Rabbit leg, boar steak and chicken breasts added

Gear: Flat Cap red/black/brown/blue/green/grey/check variants added

Gear: Green and black variant of SKS

Gear: Green and black variant of B95

Gear: Long wooden ash stick

Graphics: Adding lights to currently rendered scene changed

Graphics: Lighting from objects now is rendered during daytime also

Graphics: HDR improved and tweaked slightly to perform better with bright lights in scene (i.e. flashlights etc...)

Graphics: Engine supported point source light objects (e.g. Gaslamp) now working correctly

Map: Olsha has been updated

Map: Khelm has been updated

Map: New rock formations outside Svetlo have been created

Map: New Orthodox Chapel has been created

Map: Police Stations & Medical Centers have been placed across the map

Map: New villages surrounding Svetlo

Medical: Players can have a heart attack (declared as "irregular pulse" with pulse checking actions)

Spawns: Sporter 22 added to spawns

Spawns: CR75 added to spawns

Spawns: Amphibia S added to spawns

Spawns: 1911 and respective magazines and ammo (22LR and 9mm) added to spawns

Spawns: Wool Coats and Flat Caps added to spawns

Weather: Rain, Clouds, Wind, calculated on server and distributed to clients

Weather: Rain now causes items and player to become wet

Zombies: Simple respawn mechanic implemented for zombies, pending more robust method

Fixed:

Actions: Added 'inUseItem' back to action on target function

Actions: Proper nutritional value will be added when eating near empty food

Actions: Berry picking script messages to player improved.

Actions: Crafting splint from bandages now uses whole disposable bandage and half of dressing bandage

Actions: Ruined rags/bandages and wooden sticks doesn't produce infinite splints

Actions: Clicking on Eat All action if amount of food is below 1/4 will result in playing only short eating animation

Actions: Edited player messages in force drink action and fixing broken limbs

Actions: Added collision tests for availability of prone position and vaulting

Actions: Force feed/drink doesn't use whole quantity of some food/drink items also canteen is not destroyed after action

Animations: Bandage and eating pills animation glitch fixed.

Animations: Rolling left/right while zoomed in sights makes player zoom out for the duration of the roll.

Animations: Player can now be properly knocked out while in water.

Animations: holding animations of various weapon magazines correctly linked

Animations: Evade animations in prone (Q and E) are faster now.

Gear: Added color variants of ballistic helmets into loot spawns

Gear: Purification tablets package contains ten tablets now. Cholera removing functionality added.

Gear: Even lower chance of backpacks spawning on construction sites

Graphics: SSAO in options saved

Graphics: Rain effect settings changed

Graphics: Rain geometry optimized (28 bytes vs 12 bytes per vertex)

Graphics: Spot light culling fixed

Graphics: Fix of terrain intersections

Graphics: Fix of geometry trace for flares

Graphics: Rain now does not fall inside buildings for those on Lower/Disabled shadow settings

Login: Failure during new character creation could cause player to get stuck as unconscious

Map: Optimizations for Svetlo performance

Map: Forests surrounding Svetlo bugfixes

Medical: Would never actually die from zero health or blood due to medical conditions

Medical: Epi-pens will now wake anyone (briefly) from unconsciousness even if blood very low

Medical: Defibrillator used for restarting the heart of players who have a heart attack

Medical: Unconsciousness had irregular and unpredictable behavior (epi-pens will now always wake an unconscious player, unless they are having a heart attack)

Medical: Melee damage application system changed to better balance

Medical: Chance of bleeding from fists reduced significantly

Medical: Disconnected players avatars did not take shock or blood damage

Medical: Falling from height while sprinting did not kill player when it should have

Medical: Player could vault with broken legs

Network: Dropped items appeared only after a delay (now instant)

Network: Inventory items causing desync due to non-guaranteed update spam (hotfix currently until guaranteed message change is complete)

Network: Optimizations to network messaging updates should result in reduced bandwidth and some increases in FPS for clients/server

Structures: Changed inheritance of barrier structures (due to errors in logs)

Structures: Items disappearing when dropped near stairs or walls

Sound: subsonic projectiles no longer emit supersonic crack

Weapons: Long-range scope reticle properly centered

Zombies: Zombies aims mostly for chest area now when attacking (stops the "helmet of armor" change)

Credits: basinox

Your a champ :)

[DropBearChick 1216]

Whatcha gonna do if they push a 500mb patch within this week?

Handcuff my internet, put a sack on it and then baptise it and take its beanz

[finnpalm 312]

He's not only wrong about that, they also didn't use the ARMA 2 engine :). 

 

Oh really? I was under the impression that DayZ uses the Real Virtuality engine 3 (with snippets of code from 4 so one might argue that it's really Real Virtuality 3.5). Real Virtuality 3 was used for Arma 2, was it not? Or do you have some inside knowledge that you'd like to share on why that's wrong?

 

Yes, I do know about Scrum (not all caps...it's not an acronym).  It's a form of Agile project management.  I would hardly call it "unconventional".  Agile is probably the most common methodology after "Waterfall".  Also, it's not really used to "fast track" projects.  It's a more iterative approach that allows more flexibility in a dynamic and uncertain environment.  Which is not inconsistent with BI's approach of delivering the standalone alpha as a "minimum viable product" with each iteration (or "sprint") delivering more content and functionality.

 

Which is not to say that it is unstructured or not subject to spiraling out of control.  In fact, in many ways it requires even more discipline.  How frequent are the sprints?  Who is the "scrummaster" (Rocket?)  For that matter, is Scrum or Agile the best methodology if the underlying network infrastructure and architecture is incomplete?

 

You don't have to tell me what it is. I studied the method as late as before christmas so I'd say I have a fairly good grasp of the method. :)

 

It's often written in all capitals even though it's not an acronym. Sure, maybe unconventional is the wrong word, but I used that with regards to more conventional methods like "waterfall"-methods, which are, as far as I know, still the most commonly used methods, although agile methods are gaining a lot of ground. It is used to fast track projects though, although I don't know if that's how Bohemia is using it. Either way, since you already know about it you probably agree that the work process can look somewhat disorganized from an outer perspective when using Scrum. And that was my point.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Strawman

[Tikka (DayZ) 47]

since this topic seems like public chat, anyone knows if european experimental servers are back up (and joinable)?

[lituanoBR 2]

Dean Hall ‏@rocket2guns  Mar 12

@samtfr9 we need to make sure it is stable and doesn't introduce serious bugs

 

Nothing more since this.. :(

[liquidcactus 719]

Okay peeps, so who knows if the AUS experimental servers back up ???

[arveko 26]

Any news at all? Re experimental or Stable patch?

[Ministelis 118]

[Drtikol42 12]

Great news! Everybody start freaking out now  :D

[youngbuck (DayZ) 11]

Havent seen any airport glitch fixes yet. could you please handle it cause it ruins gameplay imo? like 10 times i was standing IN that prison and made sure noone was in (even in that glitch "rooms") 10 shots, i was down. Nice, so there is a possibility to shot people from outside. COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THAT BEFORE ADDING NEW ITEMS? I'll stop playing since you'll do it, cause this is major suckage.

[drayson 158]

Havent seen any airport glitch fixes yet. could you please handle it cause it ruins gameplay imo? like 10 times i was standing IN that prison and made sure noone was in (even in that glitch "rooms") 10 shots, i was down. Nice, so there is a possibility to shot people from outside. COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THAT BEFORE ADDING NEW ITEMS? I'll stop playing since you'll do it, cause this is major suckage.

Why is it called an airport glitch anyway?

 

p.s. I've had this happen to me too...not pleasant :(

[MoZed 8]

DayZ experimental is upating, it's happening.

[easytohate 2]

Havent seen any airport glitch fixes yet. could you please handle it cause it ruins gameplay imo? like 10 times i was standing IN that prison and made sure noone was in (even in that glitch "rooms") 10 shots, i was down. Nice, so there is a possibility to shot people from outside. COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THAT BEFORE ADDING NEW ITEMS? I'll stop playing since you'll do it, cause this is major suckage.

Do you want to have bulletproof windows?

[shael6636 10]

Anyone able to see any experimental servers yet?

[Ellen Ripley 71]

Brian Hicks on Twitter:

 

You may see an experimental update, this is primarily focused on us measuring some data in the hive - however, some map changes are there.

 

@YamTabasco We don't do changelogs for backend changes.

 

@HenrikRudberg There is no changes to mouse acceleration.

Edited March 17, 2014 by Ellen Ripley

[r3k0 6]

Anyone able to see any experimental servers yet?

 

Yes, but keep getting session lost after a few mins :( (42.116146)

[Drtikol42 12]

Yes, but keep getting session lost after a few mins :( (42.116146)

same here

[irishroy 1347]

Bäcker, Metzger und Wirte

[basinox 300]

Havent seen any airport glitch fixes yet. could you please handle it cause it ruins gameplay imo? like 10 times i was standing IN that prison and made sure noone was in (even in that glitch "rooms") 10 shots, i was down. Nice, so there is a possibility to shot people from outside. COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THAT BEFORE ADDING NEW ITEMS? I'll stop playing since you'll do it, cause this is major suckage.

Its either the invisible player glitch (the one that holds the patch from going stable) or you got shot from the window.

[pcriddle 7]

Bäcker, Metzger und Wirte

Will they make me something nice? :beans:  :beans: :beans:  :beans:  

[stonejackit 5]

wtf did they do to the controls? I'm smoothing like shit. Feels like my dude is drunk. Anyone experience the same?

[Mos1ey 6301]

Havent seen any airport glitch fixes yet. could you please handle it cause it ruins gameplay imo? like 10 times i was standing IN that prison and made sure noone was in (even in that glitch "rooms") 10 shots, i was down. Nice, so there is a possibility to shot people from outside. COULD YOU PLEASE FIX THAT BEFORE ADDING NEW ITEMS? I'll stop playing since you'll do it, cause this is major suckage.

 

That's down to the map guys (who are working on it), not the guys working on new items. It isn't a case of assigning just stopping work on everything else to fix this issue, that isn't how game development works.

[dgeesio 1034]

just had a patch 300 plus meg whats that?